Sentences with phrase «very small group of teachers»

A study looking at a costly pension enhancement in St. Louis found it only affected the behavior of a very small group of teachers who were right on the cusp of retirement.

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As a proof of concept, a small group of classroom teachers joined me for the very first STEMbite Live, a public broadcast from my kitchen exploring crazy science found in the refrigerator.

I think [Common Core] is essentially a federal initiative at this point, having been created by a small group of people, including very few if any teachers, working in conjunction with the Duncan administration, and it has been at the very least aggressively encouraged for states to adopt, particularly through the Race to the Top funding.»

[354] It is very difficult for a half - day program to provide sufficient time for teachers to conduct learning activities and intentional instruction in small group and one - on - one interactions in the areas of skill development experts believe are important to later school success.

You have to imagine a classroom that is very busy, with some students in small groups who are each on a laptop or tablet working, while a teacher is working with a different small group of students.

As Vellutino, Scanlon, Zhang, and Schatschneider (2008) note, we could change the futures of roughly one - half of the students who begin kindergarten at risk of becoming struggling readers by providing expert tutorial services; 1st grade teachers could do the same by providing expert tutorials or «very small» group lessons (with three or fewer students).

As well as being a gifted presenter, Andrew also takes the role of facilitating the content very seriously as I observed him closely working with small groups of teachers throughout his workshops.